Advanced Composition -- An Essay Draft Comment Inventory Sheet
EXPERIMENTS IN CLASSICAL & ROGERIAN ARGUMENT
Dr. J. Halden-Sullivan STUDENT'S NAME _

Please pay attention to the following suggestions as you revise the attached draft:

_ Re-think your choice of AUDIENCE / GENRE.


_ Make your essay's PURPOSE more distinct.


_ Re-align your draft with the structure of CLASSICAL / ROGERIAN arguments (see Coe)




_ Re-think how effectively you engage readers in your INTRODUCTION.



_ Sharpen your THESIS: what is your argumentative edge?



_ I want to know more: EXPAND your explanations / your research.


_ Where do you stand? Explain YOUR POSITION more fully, more deliberately.


_ REFER TO your chosen article more often to develop your claims.


_ Explain / interpret more fully your article / sources.



_ Reconsider your TONE. You sound .





_ Check to see if your paragraphs have TOPIC SENTENCES that clearly
develop / expand / relate to your thesis.


_ Re-think / clarify / strengthen your TRANSITIONS.


_ Re-think the order of points.


_ Re-think how effectively you engage readers in your CONCLUSION.


_ Check your sentence pattern variety.


_ Re-think the precision of your WORD CHOICES / PHRASING.


_ INTEGRATE YOUR QUOTATIONS more smoothly: use credit tags and/or
signal phrases TO COMPLETE THE SYNTAX OF YOUR SENTENCE.


_ Please proofread for and control technical difficulties with:

frag. fs cs poss. rep. commas with coordination/subordination

agr. unnecessary commas semi-colons colons ww wf pp.

punctuating in-text citations punctuating quotations

_ Re-think your Works Cited page documentation.

_ When I read this draft, I really like




_ Additional revision tips for you:




_ Grade range of this draft:
[ A ] [ B ] [ C ] [ r & r ] [ other ]